Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beautiful ‘ Descent into Limbo ’ from the collection of Mrs Barbara Johnson has been dated by the Metropolitan 's Keith Christiansen ( curator of the paintings section ) to around 1492 , but in the opinion of a number of scholars including David Landau , the exhibition 's organiser , there are strong stylistic arguments for placing it much earlier in the artist 's oeuvre . |
| 2 | Miller considered that the cultivation of madder in England would employ labourers , usually idle from the end of harvest until spring , and thus parishes would be eased of the Poor 's Rate , ‘ a consideration worthy of public attention ’ . |
| 3 | Similarly , if the accused obtains the thing by deception through inducing a mistaken belief in the mind of the victim but ownership is not transferred because of the type of mistake , the victim retains an interest within s.5(1) and accordingly the property can be stolen by the accused 's appropriation . |
| 4 | ‘ wilfully and indecently ’ 'Wilfully' can be proved from the accused 's own admission or from his comments or actions at the time of the offence . |
| 5 | Posters , produced with the support of the Health and Safety Executive , can be ordered from the Mutual 's Loss Control , Department 0789 204211 . |
| 6 | In Mulligan [ 1990 ] STC 220 ( CA ) stolen Inland Revenue Certificates about payment of tax were found in the accused 's sock . |
| 7 | The corporate ideology is public service broadcasting : this entails the provider deciding what the purchaser ought to listen to or watch , rather than being led by the latter 's clear preference . |
| 8 | Stand out track is ‘ Jam To It Again ’ , which mixes well with ‘ Thunder ’ from RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE 's recent ‘ In Dub ’ LP , both tracks being haunted by the latter 's ‘ Phantom ’ groove . |
| 9 | Stand out track is ‘ Jam To It Again ’ , which mixes well with ‘ Thunder ’ from RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE 's recent ‘ In Dub ’ LP , both tracks being haunted by the latter 's ‘ Phantom ’ groove . |
| 10 | Sick of being subjected to the Argentinian 's taunts Johnson simply replied ‘ Come near me sunshine and you 'll be swallowing your teeth . ’ |
| 11 | This led the judge at the preliminary inquiry to consider whether the complainants ' consent had been vitiated by the accused 's failure to disclose his HIV status before engaging in unprotected sex . |
| 12 | Relations between Forsyth and the Secretary of State for Scotland , Malcolm Rifkind , had been strained during the former 's 14 months in office , and a number of senior party officials had resigned . |
| 13 | The Béarnais of Pyrénées-Atlantique is the only purebred remnant of the original yellow-brown , pink-muzzled Pyrenean Blond , a breed which was otherwise absorbed by the Blonde d'Aquitaine ; indeed the Béarnais itself is registered in the latter 's herdbook . |
| 14 | He was attracted to the latter 's extravagant precepts on style , in contrast to Pater : ‘ What a small man Pater is . |
| 15 | Both ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ and ‘ The disappearance ’ are written by American woman authors in the 1900's , but ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ was set in the 1930's while ‘ The disappearance ’ was set in the 1970 's and I think this is the cause for the difference of the acceptance of the black race into a multi-racial community . |
| 16 | The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter 's departure from its initially predicted orbit . |
| 17 | Councillor , compulsion was tried in the 1960 's and 1970's . |
| 18 | Tribute was paid to the late 's contribution and it was to be brought to the notice of Divisions that nominations were sought . |